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Books: Happy Days in Terrible Times
Books: Happy Days in Terrible Times

Author(s): Ostap Karmodi
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: Books; publishers; novels; Victor Pelevin and Boris Akunin; Russia; translator; history; Great Achievement; Battle of Stalingrad; Soviet Union; NKVD; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Solzhenitsyn; propaganda; Stalin

Summary/Abstract: The memoirs of Pippi Longstocking’s translator sell like hot cakes and break new ground in Russian writing about the Stalin era. Подстрочник. Жизнь Лилианны Лунгиной, рассказанная ею в фильме Олега Дормана [Interlinear: The Life of Liliana Lungina as She Tells It in Oleg Dorman's Film]. Moscow, Corpus, 2009, 480 pages.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 07/20
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English